Re: Which Linux distribution for a SparcStation20?

At 13:33 Uhr -0700 8.5.2009, Aman B. wrote:
>Question to those who mentioned running BSD on their sparc32 boxes:
>For what reasons did/would you choose BSD over Solaris on a sparc?
>(I understand original replies suggested BSD over Linux preference,
>but those running BSD also made a decision of not running Solaris)

Solaris {8,9} userland and system administration being just too painful[1],
an overall preference for NetBSD, the need for an in-kernel pppoe client,
and finally pkgsrc on Solaris (Zoularis at the time) not really being
workable, but that was eight years ago...

	hauke


[1] Which lead to a very stable system with looong uptimes, because
tinkering with it was no fun. ;)


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